What factors are associated with mortality in patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support?
Bleeding is the most frequent complication in patients on ECMO support and significantly increases the risk of mortality.
Among neurologic, vascular, infectious and bleeding events that occurred on ECMO, bleeding was the most frequent and had a significant impact on mortality. Further studies are needed to better investigate bleeding and coagulopathy in these patients. Interventions that reduce these complications may improve outcome.
Aubron et al. (Thu,) studied this question.
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